Railway-car



W. B. HALL.

RAILWAY CAR.

APPLICATION men AUG-1.1917.

Patented J an. 6, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. HALL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO UNION RAILWAY EQUIPMENT CO., A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Application filed August 1, 1917. Serial N 0. 183,860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. HALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to box cars and more specifically to roofs thereof, its object being to provide an improved frame. The invention consists in a car having carlines formed of cast metal and made in two sections overlapping and secured together at the median line of the roof and having other improved features as hereinafter de-. scribed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a detail transverse vertical section of a railway car through the roof thereof,

Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the same, some of the parts being removed and some of the parts being broken away,

Fig. 3 is a detail section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

The side plates of the car are shown at 1010 and the faoia plates at 1111. The ridge pole or bar is designated at 12 and the roof boards are shown at 13. All of the parts named are of ordinary construction.

Each of the carlines is formed of two sections 14c, 15, which are made of cast metal, preferably steel, and are substantially T shaped in cross section having a vertical web 16 and a head '17. The heads of the two sections of the carline abut at the me dian line of the car and their webs 16 are extended beyond the head portion and overlap, as is shown at 18, and preferably also are provided with depending ears 19, the ears of the two sections matching together when the parts are assembled. The overlapping portions of the webs of the carline sections are secured together by means of rivets as shown at 20, one rivet passing through the ears 19.

The outer ends of the carline sections are provided with lateral flanges 21, 22 to facilitate attachment to the side plates 10. As shown, an angle bar 23 is riveted to the ends of the carline sections and bolted to the plates 10, thus providing a roof frame of great strength.

The head portions 17 of the carline sections are, provided with marginal upstanding flanges 24, 25, forming a channel for receiving the nailing strips 26 to which the roof boards 13 may be attached. Preferably the strips 26 are secured to the carline sections by meansof bolts as shown.

WVhile the configuration of the end of the carline and the means for attaching the carline to the side plate of the car, as shown and hereinbefore described, possesses great strength, other forms of construction may be followed within the scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention In a railway car, a carline formed of two metal sections T-shaped in cross-section, the heads of such sections abutting at the median line of the car and their web portions being longitudinally extended and overlap ping, such extensions being provided with lateral mating lugs and being secured together.

WILLIAM B. HALL. 

